Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
The Book of Documents (Shujing)
Confucian classic — speeches and proclamations of legendary and early-historical Chinese rulers
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Book of Documents (Shujing) (Early) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Book of Documents (Shujing)
The legendary-historical Chinese political past from Yao and Shun to the Zhou.
Space
The Book of Documents (Shujing)
The early Chinese political-territorial setting.
Matter
The Book of Documents (Shujing)
The embodied rulers and ministers whose speeches the Documents preserve.
Observer
The Book of Documents (Shujing)
The Confucian reader-statesperson as proper subject.
Energy
The Book of Documents (Shujing)
The political-moral energies of virtuous rule.
Information
The Book of Documents (Shujing)
The political-historical content of the Documents.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Authenticity of various sections (especially the "Old Text" Shangshu) was decisively challenged in the Qing period; the Documents' role in the Confucian political-philosophical tradition is uncontested.